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s part 33 Unexpected S&OP Player: Part Two Last week in the TEC blog we took a close look at E2open’s sales and operations planning (S&OP) strategy , including the vendor’s four-step blueprint to collaborative S&OP. We talked to E2open vice president of product marketing Sean Rollings to find out more about E2open’s S&OP strategy and capabilities. Following is a Q&A with Rollings, including more information about E2open’s S&OP offerings and Rollings’s ideas about trends in the S&OP market.

Tools exist to support software testing at all stages of a project. Some vendors offer an integrated suite that will support testing and development throughout a project's life, from gathering requirements to supporting the live system. Some vendors concentrate on a single part of that life cycle. The software test tools knowledge base provides functional criteria you might expect from a testing tool, the infrastructure that supports the tool, and an idea of the market position of the vendor.

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While my colleagues Khudsiya Quadri and Gabriel Georghiu diligently attended numerous conference sessions and reported their impressions of each convention day (Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, and Day 4), my much shorter attendance of the APICS 2009 International Conference in Toronto (Canada) in early October revolved mainly around exploring the expo floor and talking to the

The lack of effective game plans is typically cited as a leading cause of poor system implementation. The following guidelines provide suggestions for improving the effectiveness of sales and operations planning (S&OP) game plans.

The mergers and acquisition (M@A) market seems to be coming back slowly. One evidence of this could be the late-March acquisition of long-struggling inventory optimization (IO) provider Optiant by long well-performing supply chain management (SCM) provider Logility.
Now, I certainly wasn’t surprised by Optiant’s acquisition per se. After all, it was only a matter of time

Computron's Financial Management Solutions, part of Computron Enterprise Financials, helps the finance department create an information-driven environment in a central repository. This helps ensure data integrity and synchronization with third-party systems. This approach provides visibility into the business, strengthens management control, and helps ensure compliance with corporate and regulatory requirements.
Computron's workflow technology is used to streamline the journal entry and approval process, offering increased visibility and management control over transactions prior to posting to the ledger. Integration with Microsoft Excel is combined with Computron's workflow technology.
Computron offers integration tools for third-party applications such as front-office systems or specialist human resources (HR) and customer relationship management (CRM) software. This helps provide essential data consistency and accuracy, and establishes a central repository of financial and management data for reporting, ad hoc inquiries, and analysis.
Computron Financial Management Solutions can be integrated with other Computron systems such as purchase-to-pay and fixed assets.

In the first part of this blog, I mentioned that sentiment analysis measures the polarity of opinion—positive, negative, or neutral—regarding a subject, a product, a service, etc.
Two main approaches can be used to perform sentiment analysis or text mining: a knowledge-based approach, which uses linguistic models to classify sentiments; and a learning-based approach, which uses

By harnessing .NET possibly more zealously than its creator Microsoft’s Great Plains and Navision enterprise counterparts, and while difficult market conditions continue to persist, Epicor might be showing us that ‘a brave heart and wise mind’ can keep it in the mid-market leadership race amongst aslew of formidable opponents.

Part 1 of this blog series introduced LeveragePoint as a cloud-based newcomer to the business-to-business (B2B) pricing market with a novel pricing approach: value-based pricing. In this day and age of highly accelerated new product introductions, history-based pricing approaches are often inadequate. My previous post explained the company’s approach and current state of affairs.
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Part 1 of this blog series introduced TAKE Supply Chain, a supply chain management (SCM) division of TAKE Solutions, Ltd. The TAKE Solutions parent company is a global technology solutions and service provider, with significant focus across two principal business areas – life sciences and SCM, with an almost even breakdown of revenues between these divisions (the company is

Part 1 of this blog series talked about my attendance of Dreamforce 2010, salesforce.com’s annual user conference, which has over the past several years become a highly anticipated and entertaining end-of-the-year fixture for enterprise applications market observers. My post concluded that while Dreamforce 2009 was mostly about continued growth of the cloud computing

Part 1 of this series started with my invitation by UNIT4 (formerly Unit 4 Agresso), the second-largest business applications provider in continental Europe, to attend its UK 2010 user conference. Frankly, I was a bit skeptical about what new and exciting I might see and hear about at this event in light of the vendor’s analyst tour in Boston in late 2009.
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